Nigeria: Boko Haram - Sultan, Clerics Can't Speak for us

30 December 2011

IMAM Abu Muhammad Shekau, the leader of the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnati Lidda'awati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko, yesterday said Muslim clerics under the umbrella of the Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) are not competent to speak on behalf of the Nigerian Muslims.

Shekau in a statement which was made available to newsmen yesterday wondered why the clerics and Muslim leaders will speak when Christians were attacked on Christmas day but refused to take similar action when many Muslims were surrounded and killed in a mosque in Jos during Sallah celebration in September 2011.

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